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csqliteescapingquotes

Is there any C SQLite API for quoting/escaping the name of a table?

It's impossible to sqlite3_bind_text a table name because sqlite3_prepare_v2 fails to prepare a statement such as:

SELECT * FROM ? ;

I presume the table name is needed to parse the statement, so the quoting needs to have happened before sqlite3_prepare_v2.

Is there something like a sqlite3_quote_tablename? Maybe it already exists under a name I can't recognize, but I can't find anything in the functions list.

Solution

  • your proposed sqlite3_quote_tablename function could sanitize the input to prevent sql injection attacks. To do this it could parse the input to make sure it is a string literal. http://sqlite.org/lang_expr.html#litvalue